Zero-truncated Poisson-Lindley distribution and its application

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 279-287

  Ghitany, M E ^a   Al Mutairi, D K ^a   Nadarajah, S ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Maximum likelihood; Method of moments; Poisson Lindley distribution; Zero truncated distribution

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION;

BIAS; LARGE SAMPLES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; POISSON-LINDLEY DISTRIBUTION; REAL DATUMS; ZERO-TRUNCATED DISTRIBUTION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 55949137709     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2007.11.021     Document Type: Article

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